PREMIUMS. 87 



Best managed and cultivated Farm, to be awarded and paid in 1871. 

 Two premiums — $50, 25. 



Entries must be made on or before July 1, 1869. 

 GARDENS. 



Committee. — Ward M. Cotton, Leominster; Joseph Dyke, George 

 Jewett, Fitchburg. 



Kitchen or Mixed Gardens. Three premiums — $12, 8, 4. 

 Flower Gardens. Two premiums — $4, 2. 



No person having received a premium for a farm, kitchen or mixed 

 garden, shall be allowed to compete for another with the same land, 

 within five years, except for a higher one. 



Entries must ba made on or before June 15th. 

 EXPERIMENTS. 



Committee. — Joel Page, Joseph Gushing, Levi Kendall, Fitchburg. 



Best Experiment to determine the best and most profitable time and 

 condition in which to cut grass for hay, having regard to the total 

 annual product. Two premiums — SI 5, 10. 



Best Experiment testing the value of corn and cob for fattening pur- 

 poses, with the cob or otherwise. One premium — $15. 



Best Experiment in steaming food for cattle and horses. One pre- 

 mium — $10. 

 Best Experiment testing the comparative value of drilling wheat or 

 other grain, to broadcast sowing. One premium — $5. 



There will be placed at the disposal of tha committee, for the best 

 and most reliable agricultural experiments of any kind, made in 1869, 

 the sum of twenty dollars. 



All entries must be made at least one week before commencing the 

 experiments. 



EXHIBITION AT THE HALL. 



No article intended for the Hall will be entitled to a premium, un- 

 less it shall have been deposited by ten o'clock A. M., on Tuesday. 



All articles should be plainly marked with the name and residence of 

 the exhibitor. 

 A strict compliance with these regulations will be absolutely necessary 



